New Advances on Zika Virus Research
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2018) | Viewed by 196004
Special Issue Editors
2. Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78245, USA
Interests: virology; vaccines; antivirals; influenza viruses; arenaviruses; Zika virus; coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; innate immunity; adaptive immunity; interferon; virus-host interactions
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Interests: virology; virus-host interaction; coronavirus; vaccines; antivirals; flavivirus; Zika virus
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne member of the Flaviviridae family that has been known to cause sporadic outbreaks in Africa and Southeast Asia. Recently, ZIKV has been associated with Guillain-Barre syndrome and microcephaly in the infants of infected mothers, a condition where infants are born with abnormally-small heads. The explosion of recent pandemics of ZIKV throughout South and Central America, the South Pacific and the Caribbean, and the potential threat to the United States, represent the most recent unexpected arrival of an arthropod-borne viral disease in the Western Hemisphere over the past 20 years. To date, there are no Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-licensed prophylactics (vaccines) or therapeutics (antivirals) available for the treatment of ZIKV disease in humans, which has the potential to affect millions of people worldwide. The significance of ZIKV in human health, together with the limited existing armamentarium to combat ZIKV infection, highlight the importance of developing effective countermeasures to prevent or treat ZIKV infection in humans. In this Special Issue, we will focus on the most recent discoveries in ZIKV research, including the molecular biology of the virus, virus–host interactions, antivirals, and vaccine development.
Prof. Dr. Luis Martinez-SobridoDr. Fernando Almazan Toral
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flavivirus
- Zika virus (ZIKV)
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- microcephaly
- ZIKV vaccines
- ZIKV antivirals
- molecular biology ZIKV
- reverse genetics ZIKV
- ZIKV-host interactions
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